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Law 300 - Health Care Law and Ethics

(Full unit)

Convenors

Prof Hazel Biggs/Dr Sara Fovargue/Dr Suzanne Ost

Health care law has become an area of increasing importance not only
to legal and health care practitioners but also to academics and the wider
public. In Term 1 we consider such topics as health care ethics, rights
to health care, autonomy and consent, informed decision making, and regulating
health care professionals. Within these areas medico-legal and ethical
implications are explored. During Term 2 specific areas of health care
law and practice are examined. Topics may vary from year to year but are
likely to include areas such as abortion, embryo research, assisted reproduction,
death and dying, and organ and tissue donation and transplantation. (This
course is available to final year students only).

N.B. Books may be published before the course starts
in October 2008, so students may wish to wait until the Law 300 Course
Handbook has been published, which will include the latest information
on books, before purchasing a text.